Sir GILES-GILBERT SCOTT , R.A.
Relayed from
The Guildhall, London
The guest of honour tonight will be H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, and about a thousand guests will sit down to the banquet. When Sir Giles Gilbert Scott 's speech is relayed, listeners will hear one of the most distinguished of living architects.
He is famous for having won the Liverpool Cathedral Competition at the age of twenty-two, and he has been building the cathedra! ever since. It is doubtful if it will be completed in his lifetime. He also designed the building which houses the Battersea Power Plant and the new Waterloo Bridge. He has just completed the new buildings in Clare College, Cambridge, and the Cambridge University Library, which was opened last month by H.M. the King.